Levirate marriage
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Levirate marriage (yibbum). A Jewish custom which obliges a childless widow to marry her dead husband's brother. The obligation of levirate marriage is laid down in Deuteronomy 25. 5–6.
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The story of `Mansa Musa' for children
Newspaper article from: New York Amsterdam News; 10/10/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...York Amsterdam News 10-10-2001 The story of `Mansa Musa' for children "Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali" (Guliver/Harcourt, October...narrative. A feast for the eye and spirit both." Mansa Musa (died 1337) is one of Africa's most celebrated...
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Have you heard of Mansa Musa?
Magazine article from: New African; 10/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...sultan of Brunei, have you heard of Mansa Musa, one of the richest men who ever...Neither producer nor inventor, Mansa Musa was an early broker, greasing the...men on the face of the earth". Mansa Musa I (or King Musa) ascended the throne...
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Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali. (Picture Books).(Review)(Children's Review)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: The Horn Book Magazine; 11/1/2001; ; 658 words
; Khephra Burns Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali; illus. by Leo and Diane Dillon 56 pp. Gulliver...ISBN 0-15-200375-4 18.00 (Intermediate, Middle School) Mansa Musa ruled Mali during the fourteenth century and demonstrated his kingdom...
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Pricewise: 10-1 Mansa Musa looks right choice.(Sports)
Newspaper article from: The Racing Post (London, England); 4/13/2000; ; 448 words
; ...recommendation, to minimum stakes, is course and distance winner Mansa Musa at 10-1. Effective on fast and soft ground, we won...Sixty Six will react to blinkers. PRICEWISE ADVISES Mansa Musa, 4.00 Brighton, 1pt win at 10-1 Surrey
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After Mansa Musa.(Commentary)(Editorials)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 4/6/1996; 700+ words
; ...kingdoms and tribes that were the source of American slaves are invited to "analyze the achievements and grandeur of Mansa Musa's court and the social customs and wealth of the kingdom of Mali." Lynne Cheney, the former chairman of the National...
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FALLEN SPLENDOR TIMBUKTU ISN'T THE WELL OF WEALTH IT ONCE WAS, BUT IT RETAINS ITS TIMELESS MYSTIQUE.(TRAVEL)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 11/24/1996; 700+ words
; ...the early 1300s during the reign of Mansa Musa, the ancient Mali kingdom's best...visit until the 19th century. It was Mansa Musa who left the city its most enduring...pray five times a day. In 1324, Mansa Musa made a pilgrimage to Mecca...
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Books are back in town at annual fair
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 2/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...Susan L. Taylor. Burns has written Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali. The book, illustrated...fourteenth century Malian empire. Mansa Musa ruled Mali from 1312 until his death...Mali. "Telling the story of how Mansa Musa grew to become king gave me the opportunity...
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BOOKSCAPE
Newspaper article from: Tri-State Defender; 11/7/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...king's life makes for lush tale Mansa Musa (died 1337) is one of Africa...empire during the 14th century. In Mansa Musa: The Lion of Mali, writer Khephra...suffused with a sense of pride, Mansa Musa is a powerful tale of self-discovery...
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'They came before Columbus'
Magazine article from: New African; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...historian, who recorded the visit of Mansa Kankan Musa I, one of the most remarkable Mandinga...Atlantic. Umars' account quotes Mansa Musa as saying that his predecessor had...Umari, writing a few decades after Mansa Musa's visit to Mecca, states...
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Endangered Endowments
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/21/1995; 700+ words
; ...attached to the West African monarch Mansa Musa, thus preempting our opinion of...distortion here is in the quotation about Mansa Musa, which is cut short to make it seem...XIV's court. A few pages after Mansa Musa, a single sentence asks about Lafayette...
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Musa Mansa
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Musa Mansa Mansa Musa (died 1337), king of the Mali empire in West Africa, is known mostly...and prosperity within Mali. Very little is known about the life of Mansa Musa before 1312. In that year he succeeded his father, Abu Bakr II, to...
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Mansa Musa
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Mansa Musa (ruled 1307–37) The most celebrated of the rulers (kankans) of MALI , chiefly because of his spectacular pilgrimage...
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Askia Muhammad Ture
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...surely rivaled that of the famous 14th-century Mali king, Mansa Musa. By the time of Muhammad's hajj, however, his arrival...when he was old and blind. The eldest of these sons, Musa, took the throne and tried to secure his position by killing...
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Mandinka
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement
...Sundiata founded the Empire of Mali. Between 1312 and 1337, Mali reached its greatest prominence during the reign of Mansa Musa. By the end of the 1700s, the western savanna was colonized by the French, British, and Portuguese. It was the French...
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Mali
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...trade across the Sahara and became a major supplier of gold. The empire reached its peak in the early 14th century under Mansa Musa, who established an efficient administration. The Muslim traveller Ibn Battuta (1304–78) visited Mali...
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